Friday, September 10, 2010
Quran-burning on again, off again
This article really pushes the issue of freedom of speech in teh first amendment. There is just no reason for this person to go so far against a different religion. We live in a world where we are around or see different religions and different types of people everyday. If this church or this person cant tolerate building a mosk that is actually a couple blocks away from ground 0 adn not physically on ground 0, then he has some other major problems. The fact that he is a pastor and cant deal with people and their own respected opinions is ridiculous. The pastor is refusing to not burn the Quron and is taking responsibility for an issue that is way bigger than he is. He is being selfish by doing this and is not being realistic. By doing this, the pastor is looking at a minority and blaming a minority instead of looking at a majority. He is being the extremist by doing this and the person in charge of the mosk at ground 0 is being the normal person. The pastor is terrorizing a different religion. How would he feel if someone decided to burn the bible because a christian decided to put a church around a site like 9/11? He is basing the burning off of his original reaction and is obviouslly not thinking his decisions through.
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I agree with what you think about the burning of the Quran in that it shouldn't happen. However, I disagree that the mosque near ground zero isn't a big deal. If this was, for example, the first mosque in New York, then yes, it would be an issue of religious tolerence. But it's not. This is a place where Islam - radical, extreme Islam, but still Islam - brought suffering. Ground Zero is the closest this country has to sacred ground, and the man who wants to build the Ground Zero mosque is trying to use that to cause conflict. This isn't someone who just decided that the area looked nice, so let's build a mosque. He had a specific intent in mind - to cause a conflict in the name of religious freedom. He's lighting matches, and we're debating whether he's allowed to have gasoline.
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